Most people probably dont think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficulta fascinating example of unintended consequences.

This is part of the results of an experiment in which visitors were asked to name colors. I find the analysis below amusing, and even less complimentary of my gender than I would have predicted.

His calculation of most masculine and feminine colors is by far the most interesting part of the results, however. Here are the top five feminine colors, by finding the ones that were most disproportionately used by women:

Dusty Teal

Blush Pink

Dusty Lavender

Butter Yellow

Dusky Rose

Not bad, right? The colors are flowery and descriptive. Nothing surprising there. Now here’s the top five masculine colors:

Penis

Gay

WTF

Dunno

Baige

The only real color in the list is “baige”  and it was misspelled. Like Randall, I also weep for my gender. Although, I think these results also say a lot about the type of people who read xkcd (like me).

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